The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-06-25

! now appear to every intelligent man and woman they meet after setting foot on European soil.
 l A trip over the Chicago X North i western railroad alone would show 1 them more that is romantic, pie i tureSQue, sublime and beautiful than many of them ever sce iii an entire i European tour. ii is flying pano- ! rama of fairyland scenes, perpetual i feast to eye, heart and imagination. 1 X palace-car flight of eighty five miles from Chicago, along the shores of billowy Lake Michigan, through a pastoral Eden of verdant fields and meadows, fruit or blossom laden orch ards, vineyards, gardens and shady groves, dotted thick with lovely rural homes, through pretty suburban towns like Evanston, with it's uniyer- sity and rosy checked school-g girls; i Winnetka, Highland Park. Lake Forest, embowered in shrubbery, shade and flowers; Lake Bluff, with its famous Methodist scamp ground" where Zion's cavalry, the faithful hard riders of the Cross, hold their annual war-dance and pow-wow; and flourishing cities ! like Waukegan, kenosha and Racine. with its college, its vast agricultural implement factories, its shaded streets and stately and beautiful residences. carries one to Milwaukee, the rich and prosperous metropolis of Wisconsin. It is one of the handsomest cities in the union; with splendid public build ings, immense mills and factories, the i biggest breweries i'll the world. elegant residences, huge Gogebic mining craze and the Two Georges-Peck and l Yenowine.
 X run of seventeen miles farther, past the stately Soldiers Home. with its superb buildings, it's flower gar dens and its winding walks and drives; past numerous tiny lakes and foliage half hidden villages, and Waukesha, with it's palatial Ind tels and it's far famed fountains of health and perpet- llal youth and beauty, is reached. Unknown and unheard-of ten years ago, it's Bethesda, Siluran. Colum- bian, White Rock and half-score of other springs arc famed throughout the world to-day. and their healing waters are shipped to every region of Europe, to India, China, Japan and Australia.
 Only half hours run away by rail, or charming hours drive over an oak and elm shaded road is Oeonomowoc, with its twentv-seven lakes in one sil- very chain, its gay hotels, it's music and dancing and flirting, its white winged yachts and it's troops of sum- mer saunterers. Forty miles further westward lies Rock Lake, one of the lovelicst lacustrine gems upon the globe; ten miles round. hemmed in by forests, its surface dotted with water lilies, and its crystal depths alive with black bass, perch, pike, pickerei and muskallonge.
 Another hours spin through per petual series of views as bewitching as ever graced a painters canvas, and Madison, the capital of Wisconsin, ''the Vienna of America" comes into view. Standing on a high point of land, surrounded by cluster of glo- rious lakes, nearly every street ends in boat-houses and bath houses. Its lights at night are reflected far across the liquid mirrors, and the splash of oars and boatmen's songs recall all the dreamicst memories of that fair city whose streets are rippling waters and whose coaches are gondolas. The capi- toI is magnificent building, modelled somewhat after the huge white -domed I gathering place of the nations inter- state commerce destruction cranks at Washington, and many of the resi- dences are exceedingly handsome. Here is the home of General Lucius J. Fairchild, d one-armed hero of Get tysburg, ex-minister to Spain, and now commander in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic; and here dwells Governor Jere Rusk, whose summary stamping of the strike rioters in Milwaukee last year won his renom- ination and reelection almost by ac- clamation. Just across Monona lake is Ton wa tha, as enchanting spot as summer tourists eye ever rested on -a vista of blue waters with white crested waves, green slopipg hanks, and spacious hotel and tasteful cot tages embowered in the shades of the mighty ''forest primeval," sail-boats and row-boats darting in every direc- tion, tiny steamers puffing to and fro with their loads of excursioniste, fish ing parties coming in laden with finny trophies and big yarns, and the inevitable spooney couples drifting in their eggshell barks, with both heads under one parasol or both hands plucking the same water lily. It is a paradisaic scene when the streets of the great cities east and south are smoking with dog days heat. Here, on these beautiful shores, the "Mo-